| Pine squirrels Temporal range: MiddlePleistocene - Recent | |
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| American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Sciurini |
| Genus: | Tamiasciurus Trouessart, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| [Sciurus vulgaris] hudsonicus Erxleben, 1777 | |
| Species[1] | |
Pine squirrels aresquirrels of thegenusTamiasciurus, in theSciurinitribe, of the largefamilySciuridae.
This genus includes three species:[2]
All three species are native toNorth America. Pine squirrels can be found in the northern and westernUnited States, most ofCanada,Alaska, and northwesternMexico.
Pine squirrels,Tamiasciurus species, are smalltree squirrels with bushy tails. Along with members of the genusSciurus, they are members of theSciurini tribe.
The nameTamiasciurus comes from Greekwiktionary:ταμίαςtamías ‘steward, dispenser’ andwiktionary:σκίουροςskíouros 'squirrel'.
The American red squirrel should not be confused with the Eurasianred squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) — both are usually just referred to as the "red squirrel" in their home continents.
Pine squirrels rely on a variety of food sources including fungi, plants, arthropods and tree seed.[4]
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